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thanks for the info, I've been hearing a lot of horror stories about kids lacking computers since the lockdown. I'm also in Slovenia (LJ), living here as an expat.
It is if you round up.
I used to wonder about this with Rails. Ruby is all about programmer happiness but Rails consultants tend to charge a premium so is the client paying for Ruby making the consultant's life easier or a better, more efficient product?
> In fact, Masayoshi Son IS a Japanese citizen, and the only reason people think of him as being part of the Korean minority is that he’s famous enough that the media looked up and reported his ancestry.

Uh, his last name is Korean which makes it pretty obvious.

This type of base level misunderstanding deeply erodes the credibility of the author.

I agree that there is more diversity in Japan than many realize, but in my experience living there, it's still significantly more homogeneous than similarly prosperous Western countries.
I think maybe the right term here is not "unfalsifiable" but David Deutsch's "explaining too much". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_power#Overview
Yeah, it boils down to feudalism... for everyone.
I’m 35 and my sense of smell is terrible now compared to when I was a kid. I can vividly remember all sorts of smells from back then - how different rooms smelled differently, how opening a closet, cupboard, book, bag or whatever would flood my mind with different sensations.
Today I have to stick my nose directly down to things to smell them properly.

Then once in a while, some days my sense of smell magically works a lot better. I then go around smelling everything almost like a crazy person and I get extremely nostalgic with all the memories that comes flooding back. Then the next day it’s gone. Doctors at a loss and I’ve found no connection to what I eat. It’s infuriating.

On the flipside my mental imaging skills have always been very good. I’m quite good at following maps and it’s like I always mentally knows which way is north/south/east/west. I can mentally “fly through” entire 3D scenes (between cities, through 3D maps in computer games) and I visualize most algorithms I program in some abstract 3D space. If asked to recite a license plate I have to bring up a mental image of the plate and then read it off of that. For things I know by heart I don’t have to of course. I used to (badly) remember birthdays as an arrow pointing on a date on some circular disk representing the year. Because I had so little interest in remembering birthdays when I was younger, my sisters made a disc for me with the birthdays on it - but my sisters mental view of the year wasn’t the same (rotated) so it confused me even more than it helped.

During preschool we were introduced to the various ways people learn (visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, solitary). It is probably not a very accurate representation of how we actually learn but it was an eye opener to me that not everyone saw the way that I did.
> Crypto-as-money is still young. We have a lot to do. Do you remember Napster? Tether is kinda like Napster – it's taking off, people love it, it's a little sketchy, and it's probably not the design that will last. We don't want to make the equivalent of Kazaa – another blip in the history that ultimately doesn't ultimately work out. The challenge is to build a platform that's as robust as BitTorrent and as great to use as Spotify and Netflix.

For something on an about page, this copy draws some extremely frank comparisons.

> If users all have to go through a KYC process, this significantly limits the viability of the token to permit free movement of money across borders.

KYC processes are, essentially, the law. Governments go out of their way to do this to cut down on financial crime. Regardless of whether you believe these laws are useful or just, I find it difficult to believe they'll have any success trying to work around these laws. Governments (in general) do not like it when folks try to create loopholes: I wouldn't bet on a project whose stated goal was to avoid complying with the law.
Why are you scared? Just wear a mask :)
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>I had 3 different doctors tell me I was crazy before I said fuck this.

Most doctors don't go too deep. They do the equivalent a support call center employee does when "helping" you by reading from a number of pre-made support scripts.
Well it's only 40% if you count only the over age 16 population. (Israel is not vaccinating under age 16 until more information.)

If you look at the entire population, it's only about 28% got 1st dose and 12% got second dose, many within the last week.

But with a population of about 9.3 million (size and population comparable to New Jersey) and they just ramped up to about 1million vaccinations a week, we could be at "full" vaccination March 26th - 85% of eligible population, 2nd dose, and 1 week for it to take affect.

Source: Israel's ministry of health https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general
and wikipedia's population information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Age_str...
Theres an xkcd for that, of course: https://xkcd.com/1810/
Great news, 5% of the population already. That shows me how my home country - Germany, which was once saw as example on the fight against COVID-19 - still far behind. We only vaccinated 1.8% of our population. I wonder if the credits of a good rollout and access to such amount of vaccine will be given to the Trump administration as it should be?
Why use learning when you can fit?

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2019/05/why-use-learn...
The paper says 83x, and even makes stronger claims that are fairly unqualified:

In short, the experimental achievements of the PGM-index are: (i) better space occupancy than the FITing-tree by up to 75% and than the CSS-tree by a factor 83×,
with the same or better query time; (ii) uniform improvement of the performance of RMI in terms of query time and space occupancy, and 15× faster construction, while requiring no hyperparameter tuning; (iii) better query and update time than a B+-tree by up to 71% in various dynamic workloads while reducing its space occupancy by four orders of magnitude (from gigabytes to few megabytes).

I wonder why it was just four orders of magnitude, though. Why not six or twelve?
Of course I also watch QI ;D At least the episodes I can find on YouTube.
What I think most people miss with FSD is that it's going to have a higher crash rate than average while the kinks are still being ironed out. That is ok because we're seeking to reduce the crash rate overall as fast as possible. I've been in many, many accidents in my life. Usually as the person not at fault or in the passenger seat or on the bicycle. I love the idea of self-driving cars. They will save many lives.

The critical part to get right, however, is to test FSD on people that are more prone to get in car accidents in the first place. The elderly, recovering alcoholics, etc. That way we have the best of both worlds. Real world data to improve algorithms on, but also not raising the overall crash rate.
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Buy a backup generator. It can both charge your car and power your house in an outage.
Do you happen to have any resources (checklists?) On what auditing PCB manu. entails ?
This is true. The reason why SF is considered a tech center is because everyone else couldn't afford to move there.
This is one of the make disappointing comments I’ve read on HN in awhile. You are literally admitting to being ignorant on the issues being discussed (“I looked up”) and justifying incorrect conclusions based on the results of immature, inaccurate research.

Do you realize the depth of the topics you’re making these claims about?
AFAIK there are other makers that are also ready for this. I seem to remember that the Leaf is.

What I think will be the hard part of including cars into the grid is the warranty issues. I.e. if a battery gets so much usage from the grid that it somehow gets broken or worn out, who should take that cost/ risk?
China has history of building hydroelectric power plants with excess power and you need only a few instances of surplus energy as they can be bought at a discount, which makes mining more profitable. Fossil fuel can't provide surplus energy in principle and can't be attractive for mining.
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The other side of the coin as that they hobble 5-20 years behind tech possibilities. If you want to push boundaries, you sometimes have little choice.

Self-driving cars in the next 10 years have been a serious possibility for the last decade or so, yet governments and insurers don't have a policy ready and won't until a couple of years after the first self-driving cars are available.
But price and convenience need to cross some thresholds before I abandon my car.

I think this is a difficult problem as you have surge demand at least for commuting. So we can't get around with 1/10th of cars which are driving all day.
Was La Bamba the place that had the very very long burrito?
From the frontpage of notabug

https://notabug.io/t/whatever/comments/bc19b63da45696ee27f3e...

I know people feel like the term is lightly thrown around, but some of the comments are straight up Nazi content.
> I think almost all of these are great, and it'll be cool to follow the progress of most of these. The one thing I disagree with is this "ghost gun" policy:

Am I looking in the wrong place? Ctrl-F "ghost" on the OP gives me no hits.
Can confirm this is true for Australia. We frequently have outages and the network is in shambles.

Just to make sure, rather than provide any incentives (there are NONE) we're going to introduce extra taxes for EVs to make up for lost fuel excise taxes, which contrary to popular belief doesn't pay for our roads.

I guess the minimalist (by Norwegian standards) yet growing sales numbers in spite of our soaring electricity costs and Zero CO² taxes on ICEs (they're eg 40% in Norway) must be scaring the fossil fuel sponsored politicians (both Libs and Labor alike).

Yep, whiskey tango foxtrot indeed.
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Just because a house is detached and private doesn't mean it's big. The UK average house size is 76 m2 while the US is about 200 m2
And it doesn't list PhD on Simon Peyton Jones page!
> If a large part of the consumer sector is driven by electric powered by local sources (coal, hydro, nuclear)...

Didn't they have rolling blackouts in China earlier this month, due to a trade-spat with Australia + their reliance on their (our) coal?
I remember taking my first Deep Learning course in University 5 years ago; We had to implement the neural network, gradient computation, Batch Normalization, Drop out and all other details from scratch without external libraries in either Java/C++/Matlab. Apparently this was the old way DL used to be taught, and even in 2016 the professor insisted everyone had to do it this way.

I didn't study ML in general so what I gained from the course was a deep understanding of the fundamentals & math behind it, but since I didn't get to familiarize myself with any of the existing libraries (Tensorflow/Keras back then) I had a hard time convincing anyone in industry of my skills in the field :/

Also: Why does the book only cover Deep Q-Network on Reinforcement Learning? Sure it is the most notable deep learning step in the field but, there are some relevant versions such as Actor-Critic & Maximum Entropy RL that can be very relevant too. If one includes YOLO, ResNet and newer architectures for Computer Vision application, I don't know why same things are not on RL.
Well, it means a lot for me. Until now I had to use WhatsApp because of a few groups I had there, now I was able to remove it because all my groups migrated to Signal.

For most of those, I didn't even have to initiate it, it was proposed by a less techy member than me.
> Well... no warrants were issued, no search conducted, and nothing seized.

The violation is that they were able to sidestep legal processes like warrants by buying the data. If you don't see the issue with that, then I'm not sure what to tell you. It doesn't become okay just because they're purposefully avoiding legal scrutiny. It's like saying HSBC's money laundering is totally fine because they're successfully avoiding legal or law enforcement action.
Come off it. Much as I prefer Ruby and Python the CMS domain is dominated by PHP and ASP.Net. Whilst there are Rails and Django-based CMSes their combined adoption is a drop in the ocean compared with Drupal alone, never mind Wordpress.
"I'm not 100% sure what he did say" - this makes me a little worries. What wasn't clear exactly? I've hoped that the GC history from 48:50 covered "the Lisp part" good enough.
I don’t think everyone else is using the same definition of “define” as you.
Some context: A few years ago, there was a paper from Google (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196909) that made learned data structures popular for a while. They started from the idea that indexes such as B-trees approximate an increasing function with one-sided error. By using that perspective and allowing two-sided error, they were able to make the index very small (and consequently quite fast).

Many data structure researchers got interested in the idea and developed a number of improvements. The PGM-index is one of those. Its main idea is to use piecewise linear approximations (that can be built in a single quick pass over the data) instead of the machine learning black box the Google paper was using.
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> Which is the correct thing to do.

I don't have the virus, or the vaccine, and I don't carry on as if I have the virus. If he said carry on as if you were not vaccinated it would make sense, I agree. This statement is just asinine.

If I have to carry on as if I have the virus if I have the vaccine, I would skip because I don't carry on as if I have the virus now.
So you're saying it's great because Arm's customers will be forced to abandon their investment in Arm products.

In other words dreadful for Arm's customers and their end users.

(I want RISC-V to succeed but this isn't the way to do it)
> Google Sheets supports 99% of what Excel does

VBA is more than 1%, and Sheets doesn't support it at all.
Saying that waymo's CEO is scared is definitely not being neutral
1.8% is pretty good compared to the rest of the EU right? I'm still not sure why a lot of countries started so late or so slowly.

Still, like a lot of things, the last 20% is magnitudes harder then the first 20%. Finishing vaccination programs will come down to how well each government can educate their populist. I fear this is where America will fall down.
Even worse, it is (or at least was) not available in all methods used to access the content. I think it is available on the web, where I started using Duolingo during a downtime at work, and when I later wanted to continue, I just did not find the button for it on the iOS app (or the other way around). That is pretty terrible for such a basic part of the learning experience.
If you had a point to make you wouldn't be using a new throwaway account.
Sure but car makers don't imply or give impression that you don't need seatbelts thanks to the collusion detection system or the airbags. They don't sell seatbelt-free system that only in the small print says that the seatbelt must be worn all the times except for off-road driving.
Precisely. Provide stability in exchange of absorbing the risks from the underlying assets. It's what every bank could do, even without fractional reserve.

I've had my share of discussions with arcticbull, it's amazing how smart he can be when he wants and how clueless he makes himself to be when it comes to acknowledging the upside of crypto projects.
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...
Nice project.

For the Typography Measures[1] you have the values set to em's. Is there a reason for using em over ch?

e.g.
--measure-narrow: 20em;
--measure-narrow: 45ch;

[1]: https://www.pollen.style/modules/typography#measure
I could, because the 2nd generation Leaf was more of a facelift and the newer, 40kWh battery snaps right into place.
I'd rather hold banks, regulators, and governments accountable so that I can safely and sensibly transfer funds rather than having to rely on bullshit nerd Ponzi schemes.
Meanwhile in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter surges correlate with latitude, after a quiet summer. There’s a pretty obvious pattern: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w

And depression can be a slow killer, I’m more interested in the 2020 numbers for strokes and heart attacks. People have been hesitating in emergencies for almost an entire year (and counting).
It probably won't matter that much. Toyota will start offering BEVs in large volumes eventually. They'll be Toyotas with a different powertrain.
Internet Exchanges doesn't mean that a peering agreement is also in place automatically.
For example:
https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/general-terms-and-c...
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I learned Japanese without translation, but I learned it in a classroom in Japan.

From that experience, I don't know how you expect to start with reading and not listening first. You really need to hear something over and over and watch people pronounce the words to learn it properly yourself.
A good place to start to reduce the number of infections would be to work out a proper test. With PCR tests you can modify the number of cycles to fit your goals, from "serious pandemic" to "we are almost case free" within days. Also it seems like these tests test positive for people who have been infected months ago, so it's more than likely to pile up the numbers of cases even though most of those aren't really active anymore.
If only you had some form of centralised health infrastructure to help co-ordinate this program.

Didn't some US politician try this not too long ago?
but what if it is the only way to get google's attention?
Just anecdotally, only one of my chat groups on WA have moved over to Signal an that's because it's a group of four of us (we are long time friends who use the group to talk about our favorite sports team)

With my other far larger groups it's been a struggle to get a majority of members to care enough about this.

The reality is that most people moving to Signal/Telegram will end up having to keep WhatsApp anyway.
I believe in the end of the day, it will be directly or indirectly forced. Like, people who were not vaccinated will be fined, or later, detained if they are caught leaving their homes. I just see no other way around it, or pandemic never stops in most countries.
> hold banks, regulators, and governments accountable

Worldwide, historically, this approach seems to have a poor track record.
Nothing inherent to cell phone networks causes them to go down during power outages. Just like POTS they need a backup power supply for their infrastructure to remain functional when the power grid is down. Usually this takes the form of diesel generators.

The main difference is that the cell network doesn't power the handset but modern cell phones use so little power than a $50 consumer UPS would recharge a cell phone many times over.

Keeping phone networks up during power outages is very important for public safety.
Any chance it will make its way to Postgres?
I don't think that model has gone away. That's largely the basis for how all those large companies (FAANG's included) contribute to open source, and some smaller companies as well. The model is IMHO fairly well explained by "sharing the maintenance burden of commodified infrastructure" in some cases, and in other cases by "commodify your complement".

Open sourcing the core value proposition of your company? Yeah, that's where all those OSS startups are struggling, and then get a lot of flak for shifting to proprietary licensing (e.g. Mongo, Elastic).
I just recovered from my basement a fully working IBM Thinkpad R60.
I installed Crunchbag++ as debian based OS and it's working like a charm.
I wanted to use as a development machine. I was able to configure everything but an editor with golang support.
The only 32bit editor I found is Sublime Text 3 and that's it.
Atom and VSCode don't support 32 bit images of their app anymore :(
(and no, I didn't want to waste time compiling the atom version - there is a guide but looks not updated)

Anyway, I will try this OS now! UI looks beautiful.
Thanks for the tip, worked like a charm. I was worried that the icons would be the same, but they are not, so it is same user experience basically.
Oh wow, 11kWh to go 26 miles... I guess it depends heavily on the car, then. The Tesla Model 3 (the car I own) gets a little better than 4 miles per kWh, which would mean the trip would take around 6kWh — so about half the cost, making it cheaper than gas even at California electricity prices.
The specs of that car suggest that they want it to fail. It's not competitive to the EVs out there and is too expensive.
They existed years ago and I am skeptical that they are significant enough to make the average person even consider a new electric car. They are still too expensive for what they offer, even with heavy subsidies.

However, what I do see in Germany, are more and more electric cars in car sharing, rentals and company fleets. Upper middle class is going pretty electric as well to appear cool/caring about climate. Several Teslas in front of my building now since the new upper middle class apartments went up across the street. Several Audi e-Trons in the area as well. What's curiously missing is the ID.3 somehow - I expected to see many more at this point.

Volkswagen and many other well-known manufacturers are pushing out really decent electric models. I see a ton of Renault Zoes cruising around, electric Smarts as well. They simply fit well into the European market which is dominated by dense cities and short commutes (<100km).
Also unconstitutional. It was clever of Zimmermann to publish PGP source in a book (which happened to be machine-readable) to make the First Amendment violation completely obvious.
WhatsApp and Facebook have been sharing metadata since about 1 year after the acquisition (so, 5 years already). They weren’t public about it, but they have acknowledged it.

I don’t know if that applies to Europe as well; they promised European regulators they wouldn’t, but (a) it was before GDPR, and (b) it’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.

If I had to guess, I’d say they have shared it for Europeans before GDPR and perhaps stopped since. Perhaps not. And perhaps they have this weird bug that copies WhatsApp metadata to Facebook, like many other accidental bugs that help their cause.
It doesn't work perfectly yet, but they're on their way making it work. Give it some time.
Although there are many valid comments here, I will just leave here a voice from the .NET GC architect herself - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-to-evaluate-info-y....
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"Democracies" are perfectly capable of doing evil things very efficiently as well.

Lets not pretend the last 70 years have been all sunshine and roses with democracy being spread by force around the world.
I like to link to this video[1] whenever the subject "What is Math?" is brought up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmySxYHqQCQ
I consider 10 years difference to fit into "about the same age".

And could fit a dictionary definition on the comment to prove my point, but then we would really be moving goal posts by then.